Musical stories in fantastical worlds
Psyche Chimère from Psyche Corporation performs the middle section of the 2nd song of Miss Helen’s Weird West Cabaret, Han Mi’s Evil Plot. Psyche is playing Han Mi on the upcoming album. Every week the cabaret has a loose plotline, […]
Wow! So this 17 year old high school kid in France, Théophile Lecroart, made an animation vid to the first half of the Dieselpunk Opera Overture! And very nicely i might add. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BlrB4MIPZc
A major component of musical storytelling i spend a lot of time contemplating and struggling with is how to deliver the in between song details. In the New Albion Trilogy i used a singing narrator for parts 1 and 3, […]
The Mechanisms are having as Kickstarter in order to fund their new album. We’ve featured The Mechanisms here several times, but if you’re late to the game… “The Mechanisms are a seven-piece steam/cyber/diesel/punk-punk band based in London, who tell epic science […]
And to think you didn’t even know you wanted to hear a dieselpunk era band play one of the best versions of this song you’ll ever hear in your life! You lived your life not even knowing how happy these 5 […]
We’ve got a bunch of awesome new artwork by Sarah de Buck including the Saloon, whihc i particularly love. She also included some stuff centered around Miss Helen’s song. I sent her all the songs i have so far. She […]
Why dont you folks help me with Henry The Alchemist’s song. Come on, it’ll be fun. So think Jekyll and Hyde. Banner and Hulk. Henry is a shy, nervous, science nerd. Alchemy is his thing. He hasnt had many boyfriends. […]
I like me some epic fantasy to go with my sci-fi, speculative fiction tastes. Since i’m approaching the end of the second book of a great new epic fantasy series, The Stormlight Archive, i thought i’d take a minute to […]
So with the first song out for public perusal (and if you want to help, please share it around the net. I’d be ever so happy. I’ve included a link to the Youtube vid at the bottom of this post) […]
Lauren videotaped herself performing the recording takes for the opening song of the Weird West Cabaret. While she had 4 takes i only used 2 of them, but nevertheless have edited them into a video performance. Watch her perform the […]